Swathing attachment for harvesters



'W. H. SHARPSTEEN'. 'SWATHING ATTAGHMENT r019 HARVESTERS,

(No Model.)

Patented Apr. ,'7-,-1891.

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WILLIAM H. 'SHARPSTEEN, OFGENOA, NEW YORK.

SWATHING ATTACHMENT FOR HARVESTERS SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,919, dated April *7, 1891. Application filed April 29, 1889- Serial No. 309,137. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. SHARP- STEEN, of Genoa, county of Cayuga, in the State of New York, a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Swathing Attachments for Harvesters, of which the following is a specification, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a part of that part of the frame of a harvester having a binding attachment which carries the endless apron by which the grain is conveyed to the tying mechanism, which is here omitted, the swather, being shown in side elevation in place thereof mounted upon said frame. Fig. 2 is a top plan of the swather detached. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the same on line X X in Fig. 2.

My invention relates to the construction of harvesters, and particularly to that class commonly known as binders.

The object of my invention is to provide a binder with a swathing attachment which can be put on after the removal of the binding mechanism and taken off, so as to permit the binding mechanism to be replaced, it being a fact that it is preferable to throw some grain into a swath.

My invention consists in the several novel features of construction and operation hereinafter described, and which are specifically set forth in the claims annexed. It is constructed as follows:

In the drawings I show at A the endless apron receiving the cut grain as it falls upon the platform and adapted to travel over the cylinder 1 under the fingers 2, from beneath which fingers it is discharged onto my swathing attachment B, which consists of a sheet of metal detachably secured to the frame of the binder and standing downward there from at about an angle of forty-five degrees. This attachment is curved substantially as shown in the drawings, and it is mounted upon the main frame and across the rear end thereof with its upper edge contiguous to the discharge of the apron, and so as to present a concaved exterior face and a rounded lower edge 3, which stands out away from the main frame. At substantially the point shown I secure upon the swather the stud 4, of elon-' gated form, and this stud operates to' catch the butts of the grain as it falls from under the fingers 2 and retards and holds back the butts, while the heads swing around to and off from the edge 3, and when or just about the time when the heads either strike the ground or leave the edge 3 the butts will have slipped off from the stud 4, and thus the grain will be deposited in the swath and will lie upon the ground in a position substantially at rightangles to its position upon the apron and to its position when leaving the fingers and dropping upon the swather, and so that it will be out of the track of the machine on its next round.

I do not describe the construction of the other parts of the binder, as they are not of my invention, my invention being simply an attachment thereto.

WVhat I claim is The combination, with the apron of a grainbinder, of a swather detachably connected to the main frame and receiving the grain from the apron, consisting of a concaved sheet of metal of substantially quadrant-shaped outline and provided with a stud 4:, projecting from its concaved outer face in proper position to catch the butts of the grain as it falls from the apron, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 13th day of April, 1889.

WVILLIAM H. SHARPSTEEN.

In presence of- H. P. DENISON, O. W. SMITH. 

